native wildflowers

Sand Creek Ranch was recently acquired by The Nature Conservancy to protect wildlife habitat.

The grant is open to people living in Oklahoma, Canadian and Cleveland Counties.

Overland Park is updating city codes to make space for planned native landscapes, which have long been banned as "weeds." That could mean front yard gardens featuring milkweed, blue sage, native flowers and other species that once dominated the northeastern Kansas landscape.

Today's Growing on the High Plains will continue the series about the purple coneflower. Tune in to hear more about this medically magnificent plant…